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The opening sentence of a newspaper article today provides the perfect pretext for a typical TalkClimateChange discussion:
The target of halving global greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century is not enough to avoid the major impacts of climate change, scientists warned yesterday.
We can debate this […]

Daryl, our very own Climate Heretic, annoying and lovable that he is at the same time, sent me a note earlier this week claiming that another one of his furiously annoying predictions has come true:

Continuing with my long line of excuses for not getting posts out regularly on TalkClimateChange, today’s lack of posting has been caused by an almost terminal computer failure.
Can this have been caused by global warming?
Back tomorrow..

Some thoughts before TalkClimateChange takes a brief 10 day sabbatical.
The Blogosphere thrives on debate - the very nature of the medium encourages discussion and the presentation of alternative view points. This is the reason that TalkClimateChange exists, and the reason why Daryl, Matt and myself organise our viewpoints into Red, Green and Blue categories, […]

TalkClimateChange began six months ago with our Forums, which have since hosted a lively debate on all aspects of the climate discussion – a debate which has inspired the TalkClimateChange blog read by several thousand people each week.
To continue to provide you with a lively debate, we’ve become part of something bigger. - As […]

On Saturday I recorded a podcast together with Ben Kenney at thewatt.com, where we discussed various energy and climate issues together with Rod Adams and Robb Worthington.
If you want to experience TalkClimateChange actually talking instead of writing for a change - the digital equivalent of an unplugged blogger without the benefit of a word processor […]

This post was originally published on TalkClimateChange.
Much has happened in the world since the beginning of the TalkClimateChange blog in 2007. .
From tears in Bali, to the signing of the US Energy Bill, to dramatic reforms to EU energy policy, a Nobel Prize for Al Gore and the IPCC and the growing backlash […]

A recent comment on TalkClimateChange prompted me to think about and write about something that I have wanted to comment on for some time.
In response to a recent post, Kaishu raises the issue of general public opinion;
Get off the net for a bit and you’ll realise that almost everyone agrees there’s a problem, and […]

This is me, busily working away on TalkClimateChange on a Saturday morning.

But today I’m more interested in finding out about you. I know that there are several hundred of you each day and that you hit this blog several thousand times a week - thanks for that! But who are you really?

I’ve started writing a couple of times a week for Eco Worldly - part of the Green Options network - and would like to invite you to pop over and have a look at my latest post on the Environmental Performance Rankings which have been announced at the World Economic Forum today in Davos.

The blog posts have been harder work than usual this week. I believe I am suffering from Climate Change fatigue, becoming slightly weary and negative with the micro debate on each point. Looking at the lack of action on the forum, and the lower number of comments than usual I think maybe some of you […]

This little tale has recently been circulating the internet causing a few laughs here and there, with a few comments on lessons for climate changers; 
An American banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin […]

A mostly sentimental post, with possible lessons for climate changers.

I’ve just spent the morning making arrangements for my wedding later this year. As I do this, I realise that there are some lessons in the experience for the climate change debate, which can perhaps be forged in to some kind of discussion framework to find […]

2007 was a big year in Climate Change, which saw the US u-turn on climate policy (on the surface at least), the emergence of the EU and the UK as world climate leaders, continued climate record breaking as temperatures soared and the North West passage was opened up, the worldwide release of An Inconvenient Truth, […]

Happy New Year to all readers of TalkClimateChange!
Thanks for your support during 2007 as we launched the forum and blog, and thanks in advance for your continued support through 2008. 
Blogging at TalkClimateChange is getting of to a slow start following my Christmas break, mostly due to a nasty bout of flu that I picked up on the last […]